However, the arrival of a motor car in town heralds a tragic change in Pollyanna's life which not even Pollyanna looks likely to be able to overcome. As Pollyanna becomes acquainted with other inhabitants of the town, her infectious personality continues to spread: one by one, the cantankerous residents fall victim to her charms: Mrs Snow and Mr Pendleton being the hardest cases to crack.
A bread and milk supper in the kitchen is greeted with rapture a puritan attic bedroom with sparse furnishing is seen as valued for its rapturous views - better than any decoration could ever be.
No matter how dark the situation it is always possible to find something to be glad about. The key to Pollyanna's happiness is The Glad Game. A clash of personalities ensues as Pollyanna's sunny disposition sits ill with her aunt's need for quiet, her passion for shutting windows and her obsession with quietly shut doors. there is something about everything that you can be glad about, if you keep hunting long enough to find it." When Pollyanna Whittier's father dies she is sent to live with her Aunt Polly in Beldingsville in Vermont. The best known film adaptation, of which there were many, was produced by Walt Disney in 1960 and starred child actress Hayley Mills, who won an Oscar for her role.". The book was such a success upon publication that Porter soon produced a sequel, Pollyanna Grows Up in 1915. The title character of this bestselling children's classic, Pollyanna, was a young orphan so sunny in spirit her name has become a popular term for someone with the same very optimistic outlook. The film won Hayley Mills an Academy Juvenile Award. Mills starred in the 1960 movie adaptation Pollyanna, alongside Jane Wyman, Karl Malden, and Richard Egan in a story about a cheerful orphan changing the outlook of a small town. Octavo, original cloth, engraved frontispiece, illustrated by Stockton Mulford.
Porter’s classic of children’s literature.
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